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Robert Charles Bell (engraver)

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A major plate was 'The Battle of Preston Pans,' after Sir William Allan, upon which he was engaged at intervals for some years, and which he had only just completed at the time of his death. Several of his best plates appeared in
255: 73:, and the plates which he engraved for the Royal Scottish Association, among which were 'The Widow' and 'Roger and Jenny,' after Sir William Allan; 'The Expected Penny,' after 292: 260: 207: 162: 297: 277: 116: 74: 201: 54:. After leaving Beugo he engraved a series of Scottish views and a considerable number of vignette portraits. 70: 128: 104: 58: 287: 282: 100: 47: 82: 78: 51: 167: 120: 108: 200: 91: 251: 196: 112: 271: 246: 136: 124: 96: 43: 179: 132: 171: 39: 69:
The works which brought Bell into notice were 'The Rush Plaiters,' after Sir
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between the years 1850 and 1872. They included 'The Duet,' after
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Bell died in Edinburgh on 5 September 1872. His son,
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engraver
Edinburgh
John Beugo
Robert Burns
Trustees' Academy
Sir William Allan
Robert Purves Bell
George Harvey
Alexander Fraser
Sir J. Noel Paton
J. Eckford Lauder
The Art Journal
William Etty
Henry Wyatt
David Wilkie
William Mulready
Vernon Gallery
Frans van Mieris the Elder
Royal Collection
C. R. Leslie
Sheepshanks Collection
Thomas Faed
Erskine Nicol
John Faed
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/2025
UK public library membership

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